Saturday 21 February 2015

A challenge and some stash busting

Evening all, I have had a very productive day in my little craft area today. I am on a bit of a stash busting mission this year. My scrap box ( a 12x12 cube that fits in a expedit unit) is full. I am trying to not add to it and to actually use up the scraps.

Over on UKScrappers there is a weekly challenge and this is for February Week 2. The challenge was to use ABC

1- alter something - I covered the chipboard in paper

2- Brads, buttons, bingo card - I used a brad and a bingo card

3- Cream, claret or cool colours - I used cream

Here is my LO using some October Afternoon papers and documenting getting fresh eggs from my chickens.



Well I said I wanted to stash bust so I then went on to make a few cards to add to the card box. I went on to Pinterest and chose a few sketches to work from. I then just chose a stamp set and went from there. Please excuse the mess on the desk.




Well I still had scraps left over so I used a few punches and made these embellishments that I can use on future pages/cards or project life.




I still have these left over!! There is still 3/4 of the blue sheet left but there is cards on the back that I can use in project life so that doesn't count :-) since this picture has been taken I have used the blue and most of the yellow spot paper up on another page.




So there you have it, do you use up all of your papers? Do you have any scrap busting ideas?

Thank you for reading

Laura xx

4 comments:

  1. oo I am very impressed! Your page is fab, I just Love those cards -really shows the lovely colours of the papers. So clever to make up the embellishments too - I must remember to do this , especially when its such lovely papers.
    Good luck with the stash busting.

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  2. I love the choice of colours and teaming it up with stash busting is brilliant. I have been thinking of making my own embellishments and yours have given me plenty of inspiration

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  3. I love the choice of colours and teaming it up with stash busting is brilliant. I have been thinking of making my own embellishments and yours have given me plenty of inspiration

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  4. Oh I love all you've done particularly the embellishments - gorgeous!

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